Does China's birth rate continues to fall? How much China's population fell in 2025?
By the end of 2025, China’s population has decreased by 3.39 million to 1.4 billion. Despite efforts by the Chinese government to boost the country’s birth rate, China’s birth rate reached a record low in 2025.
According to government data released on Monday, China’s birth rate fell to 5.63 per 1,000 people, the lowest since the Communist Party came to power in 1949, while the death rate rose to 8.04 per 1,000 people, the highest since 1968.
By the end of 2025, China’s population had decreased by 3.39 million to 1.4 billion, a faster decline than in 2024.
Amidst an aging population and a slowing economy, the Chinese government is trying to encourage more young people to marry and have children.
In 2016, China ended its long-standing one-child policy, replacing it with a two-child limit.
When this failed to significantly increase the birth rate, authorities announced in 2021 that they would allow couples to have three children.